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I have not formally published it, but it's open source: https://github.com/edmistond/larmindon and https://github.com/edmistond/larmindon-core - you'll want to clone them into the …

Nice - I'm definitely going to take a look at this. I've built my own cross-platform (Mac/Win/Linux) live captioning app on top of Nemotron, and it works well but dealing with ONNX…

Wasn't mentioned on mine, either (Ohio, United States). My subscription is through in-app purchase, so I'm assuming that'll go through Apple's usual "your subscription price is inc…

I have a 2023 Crosstrek, my wife has a '21 Ascent. I have the same habit you do - edging away from large trucks slightly - and both of them do the same thing you described to me. I…

I'm deaf, so I test a lot of speech to text and transcription apps from an accessibility point of view. My answer to "why have a monthly subscription" would be that you need capabi…

Yep, I'm also deaf (since age 6), went through a lot of speech therapy, and have a very pronounced deaf accent. I live in the midwestern US (specifically, Ohio) and at least once a…

Yeah, I've been deaf for over 40 years now and captioning glasses are something that I've wanted ever since I was a kid. I'm not a particularly big fan of Meta and I have some seri…

One of my weird hobbies is radar chasing storms, and all of that stuff is completely normal. NEXRAD is very sensitive, especially when it's in clear air mode (it has different mode…

> In the last 10 years has technology actually made my life better? In my case? Yes, absolutely. Automatic speech to text is now cheap or free, ubiquitous across most platforms (ev…

I would say it's cool in the sense that building anything is cool, but I find myself mostly in agreement with your take, although with a caveat. I can't find the quote now, but som…

Yup. I grew up in Hancock Co and used to ride occasionally with the bike club there, had a couple of days when the ride out was brutal because of persistent, endless wind, but then…

Yep, I'm in the exact same situation as you. The tools for in-person are getting better, but aren't frictionless to set up and sometimes require you to spend time futzing with gett…

I have the OG 13" MBP M1, and it's been great; I only have two real reasons I'm considering jumping to the 14" MBP M4 Pro finally: - More RAM, primarily for local LLM usage through…

Best retro I ever had, on a small team of seniors: we all sat down, looked at each other, agreed that a sprint happened and we couldn't think of anything that was good or bad about…

Yup - I've done double-ended safety razors, I've tried the Gillette and Harry's disposable ones, but in 30+ years of shaving what I keep coming back to is Braun electric razors. So…

Yes, I was on an internal project recently that wanted to use LLMs in a way that was appropriate to evaluate if changes between two versions of a text were semantically meaningful,…

I did something similar recently with my daughter's school calendar and ChatGPT with gpt-4o; her school has a ton of closures/teacher work days, I fed the PDF of the calendar in an…

Speaking as someone who's deaf and uses these services a lot: for speech to text, the AI stuff is getting rather good. I'm not saying it's perfect for every situation, but I have a…

It does, but at least on iOS, turning on incognito mode also turns off the YT premium features that you're paying for.

I've been running Consent-o-matic [1] in both Chrome and Firefox for quite a while now, which automates a lot of them. You can set your preferences for what categories of cookies y…

As I recall, this was more or less the concept behind Brilliant Pebbles [0], except Starship makes it cost-effective to launch. I'm not going to argue whether building it is a good…

Yeah, I agree with this take. For web and console apps, C#/dotnet is a great choice and should continue to be. Blazor, I think, is also fine (for some use cases, it's situational) …

NSubstitute is good, I used it at a previous job. I've favored Moq in the past because I think there are a couple of things it makes a bit easier or is a bit less opinionated about…

That's a good point, and I had a similar reaction. I got laid off from my first job out of college in late 2006. Unemployed for 3 months, found a role with a new company 2 hours aw…

Also built into Windows 11 as of the 22H2 release, just for the record. That said, I may have to try this out - I've wanted to give Linux another go on my desktop but since I use c…